Today, even tiny churches have their own indoor baptisteries, and outdoor baptisms - while certainly not gone - have dwindled in many areas. Some churches still gather at the river or lake.

Rachel Bocobo is baptized in a horse trough at The Source Wichita, one of several churches using creative baptisteries. Courtesy photo Rachel Bocobo remembers being baptized twice in traditional ...

Was architecture really a non-factor in Byzantine art? A new book debunks conventional wisdom. Europe’s cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and baptisteries cover the countryside like Veronica ...

The Syracuse Utah Temple, the first with two baptisteries, opens for public tours on Saturday following a media day on Wednesday. Youth and church leaders talked about why they regularly visit ...

WICHITA — Rachel Bocobo remembers being baptized twice in traditional baptisteries at the front of a sanctuary, people looking up at her from the pews. Those times, once as a child and later an ...

The leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been forced to construct artificial water facilities for baptism due to illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, which has destroyed ...

But the church is now being compelled to construct baptisteries in place of conducting baptisms in streams and rivers.

In the West the first known Baptisteries are found in Rome at St John’s in the Lateran and in Milan adjacent to the Cathedral of Saint Tecla. The diffused but not exclusive octagonal shape derived ...